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All over 50’s should be doing some form of weight training. It will help slow the ageing process and really improve their quality of life as they age. By setting up healthy habits now, it can maintain youthfulness for a longer and a happier, more active lifestyle.

This blog has been inspired by a hard training client of mine. He is going away for a couple of weeks and is worried about losing his ‘gains’. I felt this would make a good topic as if it worries him, it also probably worries a lot of you.

Exercise, weight training and specifically muscle building isn’t rocket science. Whilst it is true to say everyone responds slightly differently, there are some general ‘go-to’ rules that will help maximise the results from your efforts. Here are the things I wish a 16-year-old me had known all those years ago which would have certainly sped up my progress.

You are on a diet, fat loss is going well, then out of the blue you have a stressful day or a party invite you just cannot turn down. This leads to an alcohol/fast-food fuelled weekend. So here is how to rescue the diet from the carnage of your weekend and get back on track relatively easily.

If you have ever worked out hard in the gym or during any sport, then chances are you have felt this soreness. It is a side effect of strenuous physical activity and it tends to be called DOMS (Delayed Onset of Muscle Soreness).

Fitness for free is something I really advocate. I personally believe cost should never be a barrier to health and so I want to discuss one type of the many free fitness activities out there, the “Parkrun”.

How many of you go to the gym and dive straight into your working sets? I can tell you now, going from sitting in an office to suddenly putting your body under strain is a sure-fire way to getting yourself injured.

For every person that gets great results in the gym, there are probably 10 people who start and fail. There could be many reasons to the reasons why, I will now take you through my top 10 reasons why you aren’t growing (this is adapted from Phil Learney to match my own experiences).

This is something I hear (or variations of this) on a regular basis. Believe me, I get it, I really do! A lot of people want to lose weight without having to completely sacrifice their social life. It is here where alcohol plays a big part, whether it is to have fun or just to relax.

As a body transformation specialist, I spend a LOT of time in the gym and as such see a large cross section of gym-goers. People clearly care enough to invest their precious time into fitness, either as an enjoyable activity or with a set goal...

If I had a £1 for everyone that had told me they’ve tried every diet under the sun but STILL put on weight then I’d have at least, hmmmm, £150. Not quite enough to retire but enough to focus the mind and realise that there is a real problem...